SAN FRANCISCO, July 15, 2026 — Today, Anthropic, Blackstone, and Hellman & Friedman introduced Ode with Anthropic (“Ode”), the AI services firm announced earlier this year, now launching under its official name and brand. Ode is a standalone company that combines Anthropic’s frontier AI models, a team of experienced AI engineers and operators, and the backing…
Existing benchmarks suggest voice AI is nearing human-level performance but real-world conversations tell a different story. Voice is rapidly becoming AI’s primary interface. From customer support and healthcare to education, entertainment, and personal assistants, speech is increasingly replacing text as the way people interact with AI. Over the last few years, voice models have improved…
GPU programming doesn’t have to be this hard GPU programming has always demanded precision, but the cost of that precision keeps rising. A production matmul kernel written in C++ spans 3,000–5,000 lines of tightly coupled code where a misplaced barrier silently corrupts results. That complexity gatekeeps hardware that should be available to far more developers,…
Listen to the article 3 min This audio is auto-generated. Please let us know if you have feedback. Dive Brief: Hospitals and outpatient facilities purchased $100 billion worth of drugs in the 340B discount program in 2025, an almost 23% increase from the year prior as regulators look to reform the program. The latest data from…
Your next Google search could end with a shopping cart instead of a list of links. On July 16, Google announced that it is expanding Connected Apps in AI Mode for US users, allowing people to move from conversational search into services such as Instacart, Canva, and YouTube Music. The integrations can turn meal ideas…
The British AI Security Institute (AISI) has, for the first time, publicly assessed how far leading open-weight AI models lag behind top proprietary systems in cyber capabilities. According to AISI, that gap is closing. Current open models like GLM-5.2 and DeepSeek V4-Pro have reached a level that closed frontier models hit four to seven months…
Every new model release promises better reasoning, lower costs, or new capabilities, and developers want access on day one. But every provider also introduces another set of API keys, another integration, and another governance surface for platform teams to manage. Without a centralized way to govern all model providers, access becomes fragmented, API keys proliferate,…
What You Should Know AI-native radiology pioneer Raidium has announced the U.S. launch of its flagship platform, Raidium Read (R.Read), bringing agentic AI workflows directly to advanced oncology research institutions. The company’s system has been actively deployed at Moffitt Cancer Center, one of the nation’s preeminent oncology facilities, where it successfully replaced the center’s legacy…
and expensive. The fast parser misses the table the answer lives in. Run the heavy one on every page of a 200-page report and you pay for 200 pages to rescue three. Run the cheap one everywhere and the single flattened table sinks the answer. Neither setting is right for the whole document, because the…
Long-context reasoning changes what teams can ask a model to do. Entire repositories, large document sets, long agent traces, and tool outputs can fit into the model’s working context instead of being compressed into brittle summaries. But the models that can use that much context are also the hardest to serve: a 1.6T-parameter MoE with…